Re: [2.4 PATCH] bugfix: ARP respond on all devices

From: Bas Bloemsaat
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 12:03:29 EST


> The RFC I quoted (985) says the ARP packets generated by Linux
> should be dropped. Sure, the RFC isn't a standard, but there ARE plenty of
> implementations that obey it for perfectly valid security reasons.
Same goes for 1180. It it doesn't define a standard either, but makes
perfectly clear that any interface has it's own ARP, not one ARP for the
entire system.

Regards,
Bas


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